Baby, what do you say we just get lost
Leave this one horse town like two rebels without a cause
I've got people in Boston, ain't your daddy still in Des Moines
We can pack up tomorrow, tonight let's flip a coin

Heads Carolina, tails California
Somewhere greener, somewhere warmer
Up in the mountains, down by the ocean
Where it don't matter, long as we're goin'
Somewhere together, I've got a quarter
Heads Carolina, tails California

We can load what we own in the back of a U-Haul van
Couple of modern day Moses' searchin' for the promised land
We can go four hundred miles before we stop for gas
We could drive for a day and then we'll take a look at the map

Oh, heads Carolina, tails California
Somewhere greener, somewhere warmer
Up in the mountains, down by the ocean
Where it don't matter, long as we're goin'
Somewhere together, I've got a quarter
Heads Carolina, tails California

We're gonna get out of here if we gotta ride a Greyhound bus
Boy, we're bound to outrun the bad luck that's tailin' us

Oh, heads Carolina, tails California
Somewhere greener, somewhere warmer
Up in the mountains, down by the ocean
Where it don't matter, long as we're goin'
Somewhere together, I've got a quarter
Heads Carolina, tails California
Oh California, ooh-ooh, ooh yeah
Carolina
California


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Heads Carolina, Tails California Lyrics as written by Mark D Sanders Tim Nichols

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    i really love this song, its me and my husbands song

    smiley3433on May 25, 2002   Link
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    To me it means a women making a decision with her husband of couse :-) about whether she should go to Carolina Or California dependin on the flip of a coin. Plus its a really fun song to sing

    FridayThe13thNikon September 18, 2004   Link
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    this song makes me sing smile

    helloxxcaitlinon September 03, 2008   Link

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